Baja Beach Club

Thinking of hitting up the newly reincarnated Baja Beach Club tonight? Forget it. It's closed. The club opened on Oct. 5, and closed its doors after just over a month in operation. Owners don't know whether they'll reopen the club either at the same location or elsewhere, said Larry Spatz, part owner of the club at 7000 W. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton . "We weren't bringing in enough people," Spatz said. "It's a large club that we would have to have a significant amount of customers to create the right energy in, but we weren't getting enough heads through the door by far. " Spatz is a founder of the legendary Baja Beach Club chain, which is credited with inventing the "body shot.

Thinking of hitting up the newly reincarnated Baja Beach Club tonight? Forget it. It's closed. The club opened on Oct. 5, and closed its doors after just over a month in operation. Owners don't know whether they'll reopen the club either at the same location or elsewhere, said Larry Spatz, part owner of the club at 7000 W. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton . "We weren't bringing in enough people," Spatz said. "It's a large club that we would have to have a significant amount of customers to create the right energy in, but we weren't getting enough heads through the door by far. " Spatz is a founder of the legendary Baja Beach Club chain, which is credited with inventing the "body shot.

I came. I saw. I danced at the new Baja Beach Club in Boca Raton . Five bars, one made into a Tiki Hut and one carved from an actual boat. And 12,000-square feet of flashing lights, booming speakers and scores of gyrating eye-candy employees, male and female, taking turns serving drinks and shaking what they're momma gave 'em on or near the bar. And all donning clothes more appropriate for, well, the beach. That's right fresh princes and fresh princesses of South Florida, the Baja Beach Club is baaaack.

I came. I saw. I danced at the new Baja Beach Club in Boca Raton . Five bars, one made into a Tiki Hut and one carved from an actual boat. And 12,000-square feet of flashing lights, booming speakers and scores of gyrating eye-candy employees, male and female, taking turns serving drinks and shaking what they're momma gave 'em on or near the bar. And all donning clothes more appropriate for, well, the beach. That's right fresh princes and fresh princesses of South Florida, the Baja Beach Club is baaaack.

The original Baja Beach Club is making a comeback. The founder of the iconic nightclub chain, which had about 40 U.S. locations, is coming out of retirement to bring the popular night spot back to life in South Florida. Baja Beach Club is set to open its doors 10 p.m. on Oct. 5 at 7000 W. Palmetto Park Road in space once occupied by Club Boca. "When we decided to bring it back, Florida was the ideal spot, and we've found what we think is also the ideal location," said Baja Beach owner and founder Larry Spatz Friday.

The days of bikini contests and simulated beach parties are back with the opening of a new Baja Beach Club in Boca Raton. Baja Beach Club will hold two job fairs to hire for its new club, on Wednesday, Sept. 12, and Sept. 19. The dance club is scheduled to open Oct. 5. The club is looking to hire bartenders, lighting technicans, cocktail servers and other workers at the job fair, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. each day at 7000 W. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton. Baja Beach Club says in its press release that it will "train you to entertain Baja Beach Club style.

When Charles Jones bought the Baja Beach Club out of bankruptcy court last winter, he dreamed of creating a major concert venue. But in just three months, his dreams have turned into a morass of permits and police reports. The club, at 100 Ansin Blvd., has a long and colorful past. At different times, it housed the infamous Button South, Cafe Casablanca and most recently Baja Beach Club. For several years, the site has earned itself a reputation for crime and violence among police and city officials.

If you make the rounds, you know the nightclub scene can get old. Fast. You drink a beer. The records spin. You dance. Yawn. But there is little chance of falling asleep at Baja Beach Club in Fort Lauderdale. Bartender Pete Drollet douses the front of his jeans with lighter fluid and sets a match to it. He kneels on the bar, lighting ladies` cigarettes with his crotch ablaze. Welcome to Baja Beach Club, the second largest entertainment chain next to Hard Rock Cafe. The clubs are open in seven other cities across the country, including Miami, Chicago and Baltimore.

A Pembroke Pines man was in critical condition in Memorial Regional Hospital on Friday after someone stabbed him in the heart during a brawl outside a club. The brawl, which involved 30-50 people, started about 5 a.m. in the east parking lot outside the Baja Beach Club at 100 Ansin Blvd. During the fight, someone stabbed Dakure Larmond, 20, in the chest, Hallandale Beach Police spokesman Andy Casper said. There were no other reported injuries. The cause of the melee is under investigation.

City commissioners on Tuesday approved a liquor license request to allow a new nightclub to operate until 4 a.m. in the former Cafe Casablanca building. Mark Collins, general manager of Baja Beach Club in Oakland Park, said he will open the Surfside Sally's club in the building, just off Interstate 95 and north of Hallandale Beach Boulevard. He anticipates opening the club, which will cater to patrons 21 and older, in the second week of May. The commission's 3-1 vote came despite concerns by the Police Department that allowing the club to serve alcohol until 4 a.m. might result in too many police calls to quell disturbances there.

The original Baja Beach Club is making a comeback. The founder of the iconic nightclub chain, which had about 40 U.S. locations, is coming out of retirement to bring the popular night spot back to life in South Florida. Baja Beach Club is set to open its doors 10 p.m. on Oct. 5 at 7000 W. Palmetto Park Road in space once occupied by Club Boca. "When we decided to bring it back, Florida was the ideal spot, and we've found what we think is also the ideal location," said Baja Beach owner and founder Larry Spatz Friday.

The days of bikini contests and simulated beach parties are back with the opening of a new Baja Beach Club in Boca Raton. Baja Beach Club will hold two job fairs to hire for its new club, on Wednesday, Sept. 12, and Sept. 19. The dance club is scheduled to open Oct. 5. The club is looking to hire bartenders, lighting technicans, cocktail servers and other workers at the job fair, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. each day at 7000 W. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton. Baja Beach Club says in its press release that it will "train you to entertain Baja Beach Club style.

This is a requiem for a heavyweight. And a lightweight. Ireland's Inn was both, masterfully. It was a heavyweight on the landscape of this area. The footprint it left, before closing April 1, was a 50-year imprint on Fort Lauderdale beach, and equally large, on the psyche of so many of us. On its final day, customers used a thick black marker to scrawl inscriptions on the giant wall between the beach and its patio deck. The word that appeared the most: Love. How does a slab of concrete achieve that?

Sonar looks like the club people in 1970 envisioned as what a club would look like in 2000. The high-ceilinged room exudes red, accented with bright metal. Walls are pocked with large plastic domes that encase odds and ends: headphones, a cocktail shaker. Doorways are filled with beads. The open-plan lounge is dominated by a bar with gleaming saucer-style stools that have a pneumatic action. Pretzels and potato strings are in trays on the white bartop, although a full menu is advertised as well.

In a move to curb adult entertainment, city commissioners on Wednesday passed a new law restricting activity in strip clubs citywide, sparking an outcry from club representatives who said the measures would put them out of business. Commissioners voted 4-1 to pass numerous regulations in strip clubs, among them banning alcohol sales, full nudity, and contact between strippers and patrons. Also, clubs can't operate between midnight and 6 a.m. Commissioner Larry Gierer was opposed. They also unanimously passed a separate ordinance that limits future strip clubs to areas zoned mainly for industrial uses.

The fifth Henri and Zack Crockett football camp last month had something to offer for beginners to experienced high school players. "This is good hands-on training," said Claude Young, 16, an Ely High sophomore. "It gets me warmed up for the regular season. It's also a great motivator to see all of these college and pro athletes out here. I didn't think there would be that many people out here. It's amazing." Trevon Robinson, 8, of Lauderhill, was happy to learn some new skills. "We get to meet football players and they teach us some important things," Robinson said.

FORT LAUDERDALE -- Fire inspectors found two minor building code violations on Sunday at a dance club where a tear gas bomb panicked about 700 patrons a day earlier. Managers of the Baja Beach Club in the Coral Ridge Mall promised to quickly solve the violations by removing broken glass from a stairwell and replacing a missing exit sign, fire Battalion Chief Steve McInerny said. The crowd at the new club broke into a frenzy early Saturday after someone set off a tear gas canister. About 75 people were treated for smoke inhalation or cuts.

800 block of Southwest Second Court. The left rear vent window of a 1977 Oldsmobile was smashed. A $60 Delco battery was taken between 9 p.m. Feb. 20 and 8:40 a.m. the next day. -- 2800 block of Southwest Fourth Street. A toolbox containing $600 worth of Craftsman Snap-On tools was taken from a 1981 Chevrolet utility van parked in a driveway on Feb. 21. THEFTS -- Baja Beach Club, 3200 N. Federal Highway. A thief stole $4,700 in cash from a locked safe after prying open a sliding glass window between 11:10 and 11:15 a.m. Feb. 21. -- 800 block of Northeast 15th Avenue.

A nightclub that advertised sexy waitresses and "friction dancing" has sued the city, saying it improperly yanked the club's operating license. Ibiza Dance Club and Cafe, at 3339 N. Federal Highway where the former teen bar Baja Beach Club once stood, was set to open in March with a new name and risquM-i image. It was to be a new incarnation for the cavernous club. Baja, which had drawn numerous complaints from nearby residents about noise and rowdy behavior, and was the scene of a fatal shooting and stabbing in 2001, closed last year.

Baja Beach Club, the cavernous, hip-wiggling teen bar with a notorious past, is growing up. But first, it has to recover from a financial flop that forced the owner to close the club last week. After months of foundering in a post-Sept. 11 economic downturn, the club's owner, Andrew Barnett, gave up struggling to pay more than $30,000 a month for the bar that catered to the 18-and-older crowd. The booming patronage of thousands of young adults, dropped 50 percent over the past seven months.